The ladies masters athletes from the SMTFA competing at the Flash Athletic Meet in Oct at the Bishan Stadium.

2/08/2015

SMRT – Revisiting the thinking of the sick

When SMRT
was first introduced, there was the thought that travelling in public transport
could be gracious, clean, smooth, convenient, fast and stylish. Then the money
making mind set in. We want to be like Tokyo, crammed them in to the fullest,
hire pushers to get as many commuters into the train as possible. Make the
seats as small and narrow as possible to max the limited space. Good for the
revenue. Nevermind the squeeze, discomfort and inconvenience. Nevermind the
smell in this humid tropical island, never mind the unwashed foreigners. Who cares
about gracious living. Gracious living was just a thought or meant for the rich.

After some
crying and kpkb, there was a return to sanity. Instead of squeezing everyone
into the train, they realized that there is another option, provide more
trains. Silly that they did not think of it and only thinking of squeezing and
squeezing. Have more train lines and more trains, higher frequencies, and
encourage off peak travelling to create room and space.

But this
kind of thinking is only meant to be short lived. They are going back to the
old thinking, squeezing more people into the trains. The latest idea, tip up
seats, to create room and space. Uncles and aunties, sorry hor. In this money
minded island, everything is about making money. You oldies, legs weak, no
seat, just too bad. What gracious living? What more trains? There is a maximum
capacity, when reached, you cannot squeeze more trains on the lines. And there
is a need to prepare for the 6.9m or 10m. How to increase passenger load?

I got a
better idea. Shrink the population. I mean shrink the physical bodies. Feed
everyone with a shrinking drug to half their size and the capacity will double.
Or get our scientist to develop a shrink capsule and put the people in, and out
comes all the midgets.

You want
10m? 20m also can. When you make the population smaller in size, everything will
fit. Eat less, use less space, productivity sure to go up. Use Science, not
dull brains of the past trying to push a square peg into a little round hole.

Dun be khongcum and think of shrinking body lah.All no brainer from a start. I would prefer they dig deeper and built bigger tunnel from the start and have double decker train or triple decker train. Why can't we be different from others instead of having the usual standard single decker train.Need lesser train with lesser train captain operating.One trip can carry 4k pax instead of 2 k.If only we can see far.Even 10 million oso sub sub soay lah.Nothing is impossible.

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